Working Across Differences
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Bridging Differences Leadership Cohort Alumni Office Hours - September
Bridging Differences Leadership Cohort office hours offer cohort members a space to reflect on their learnings and ask questions about program content. This year, we're excited to open these sessions to cohort alumni. These sessions are an opportunity to reconnect with the program's themes and…
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Bridging Differences Leadership Cohort Alumni Office Hours - July
Bridging Differences Leadership Cohort office hours offer cohort members a space to reflect on their learnings and ask questions about program content. This year, we're excited to open these sessions to cohort alumni. These sessions are an opportunity to reconnect with the program's themes and…
Innovia Foundation, winner of the Council on Foundations' Building Together Award, is creating community in a diverse, 40,000-square mile region.Four stories tall and sheathed in weathered wood siding, the J.C. Barron Mill has stood watch over Oakesdale, Wash., population 400, for nearly 140 years…
As the beginning of May inches (or maybe barrels) closer, the anticipation of travel builds. This comes with real excitement for learning, connecting, and inspiration, but it also comes with some challenges. Work travel isn’t easy, but conferences like this, in my experience, are always worth it!…
The Bridging Differences Leadership Cohort is a facilitated virtual learning experience meeting monthly from April 2026 through November 2026, hosted by the Council on Foundations in partnership with the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley (GGSC). Cohort members expressed their interest in…
Like many other social sector services, American higher education has been battered by a set of pressures tied to political polarization: escalating campus protests, growing public skepticism, and donor and legislative scrutiny over the past several years. The result: a pervasive sense that the…
Philanthropic organizations face heightened attention and expectations. To support Council members, our Legal Resources team hosted a webinar on what philanthropic organizations need to know to engage confidently and responsibly in civic engagement work.This session covered what organizations can…
This session offers practical tools and case studies to help funders listen quickly and, effectively, and without burdening grantees in times of upheaval—even when communities are sharing conflicting opinions and input.This is a part of the Building Up to Building Together webinar series. If this…
Steamboat Springs, the largest city in Routt County, is a tourism-driven ski town known for arts and recreation. Upriver in the city of Craig, the county seat of Moffat County, a rich tradition of ranching and farming carries on as multi-generational families preserve their livelihoods through…
Times of rapid change demand leaders skilled in both improvisation and imagination. Both of these skills require practice. This session introduces the foundations of strategic foresight and equips participants with practical techniques to expand possibility, challenge assumptions, and explore…
Why Psychological Safety Matters for Trust, Collaboration, and Shared Power
Discover how creating a sense of psychological safety is an essential foundation to building trust, sharing power more fairly, and including everyone’s voice. Learn how care and accountability strengthen meaningful partnerships, practice healthier ways of working together in mission‑driven settings…
Lennon is hellbent on creating spaces where humans can be human, out of a belief that healing is collective and nothing is done in isolation. She is the founder and Executive Director of Trust Labs, which equips local leaders with the tools, training, coaching, and peer learning networks to help…
Communications Toolkit for Working Across Differences
Developed in partnership with Hattaway Communications, this free toolkit draws on our national survey of 1,000 American adults, in-depth one-on-one interviews, and a landscape analysis to reveal how people view work to connect and collaborate across differences and the role that foundations should…
Daniel O. Ash is president of the Field Foundation, a private and independent foundation that supports community power building in Chicago through strategic investments in civic infrastructure, the cultural sector, local news outlets, and organizers. Through its grantmaking, the Field Foundation…
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Council on Foundations today announced the release of Coming Together, Not Apart: Building the Hearts, Minds, and Skills for Leading Across Differences, the third and final publication in a three-part series exploring philanthropy’s role in helping Americans connect and…